So when this young woman's grave was moved, didn't they mark it at all?

The article said the families had to pay to move the tombstones in 1937, and if they didn't pay, the stones got used as landfill. I guess, in the 1930s, many families were impoverished due to the Depression. That just doesn't seem right somehow. She had been dead less than 50 years, and her family must have paid a lot for her original tombstone. There could easily have been people alive then who still remembered her.

One of the eeriest images I ever saw was on TV, when they were building the New Globe Theater in London, back in the early '90s. They uncovered a graveyard from the time of the Black Death, and there was an aerial view, rows and rows of skeletons. I don't know what they did with them all. I can understand moving a cemetery that old, but these cemeteries in San Francisco weren't really old at all.

Yeah, it was very eerie to see. It really brought home the horror of the Black Death. Also it was a memento mori---made you realize that someday, we are all going to look like that to someone else. So hard to believe it. Not hard intellectually, but hard psychologically somehow, really to grasp it.

The people in London must have been buried without coffins, maybe just wrapped in shrouds, which had disintegrated with time.

All of the West Coast is prohibitively expensive both to buy a house and the cost of living. A one-room effieincy appartment with the old fashioned Murphy bed is well over what you would pay for a mortgage payment some place else.

When I was young, I really wanted to move to L A in the worst way. Now, I don't know if I would or not, if the oportunity were to arise. Even if I did get a high paying job in L A, I would probably look for a cheaper home more inland and commute to work.